My Books
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Dice Pass Updated
Dice Pass 1.1 is now available from the Mac App Store.
What does Dice Pass do?
Dice Pass is a utility to app to generate random passphrases based on the Diceware system. Diceware uses a table of pre-defined words, each assigned a 5 digit code number containing the digits 1 to 6. The official way to generate a phrase is to roll 5 dice for each word you want in your passphrase and then consult the words table to find the matching word.
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How much work does Icon Builder save you?
Icon Builder is a Mac app that takes a single image file and creates all the different image sizes that you need to make a set of icons for your app: Mac, iPhone, iPad, iOS Universal or Apple Watch.
Version 4, released 16 September 2016 is available through the Mac App Store.
What's New in Version 4:
- Added support for iMessage apps and Sticker Pack apps.
- Added support for creating Mac .icns files.
- Better removal of alpha channel for Apple Watch icons.
- Clearer usage instructions in ReadMe files.
- iTunes Artwork folders will no longer be over-written with the latest image files.
- Supports macOS Sierra and Xcode 8
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Retiring old apps
With the release of iOS 10 and the need to update iOS apps to suit, I have decided it is time to retire some of my lesser-performing apps as it is not worth the effort required to maintain them.
At the moment, the following iOS apps are no longer available:
- A Knight's Move
- Dice Pass
- Pic-a-POD
- Quick Score - Tennis
For the first three listed there, the Mac versions are still available:
If you bought any of these apps and would like a promo code for the Mac version, send me a screen shot of the app running on your iPhone or iPad and I will send you a code.
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Man Reader updated to 1.6
Man Reader has been updated to version 1.6 with the permissions needed for finding all available man pages and a fix for search terms being over-written after a background update.
Man Reader 1.6 is now available through the Mac App Store.
Change Log:
- Permissions fix when searching for available man pages.
- Fixed error with new search term being over-written.
- Sand-boxed version now works just as well as the non-sand-boxed so please switch back to this version.
This version fixes a problem with sand-boxing permissions potentially not allowing access to all the installed man pages on your system. This should now be fixed but if you discover any man pages that are available through Terminal but not through Man Read, please email me the details and help me make Man Reader better.
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Dice Pass Mac Update
I recently got an email from someone who had purchased Dice Pass for Mac from the Mac App Store but had been unable to get it to run. This person was using OS X 10.9.3.
I checked the App Store specifications and it showed that 10.9 was the minimum system requirement, so it should have worked. But going back to my Xcode project, I found that it was set to a minimum of OS X 10.10.
I tried to re-compile for OS X 10.9 but this failed as the app uses several features that are not available prior to 10.10.